Source: Tolo About this video: This is “FARAKHABAR: Barriers to Sikh Children Education Discussed,” an episode of the TOLOnews current-affairs program Farakhabar running 24 minutes 22 seconds. Host Fawad Aman discusses how Sikh children in Nangarhar province lack a proper place for their schooling and are taught inside temples instead, with guests Anarkali Honaryar, senator,… Continue reading FARAKHABAR: Barriers to Sikh Children Education Discussed
Category: Opinion
On Old Traditions
About this video: A 10-minute conversation (in Persian) with Ms. Mohini Devi Mohan on observing proper traditions and performing religious ceremonies at Kabul’s shrines (March 2015).
Asamai Experiences
Ms. Sachdeva and Ms. Kakkar talk about their experience in Asamai Temple
Asamai School in Kabul
About this video: Kabulnath (March 2015, in Dari, 13 minutes) on the founding and teaching of the Asamai School in Kabul.
The history and current position of Afghanistan’s Hindus and Sikhs
Click here to read a research paper by Roger Ballard on Afghan Hindus and Sikhs which was written in 2011
Ways of speaking in the diaspora: Afghan Hindus in Germany
Click here to read the thesis by Chitra Venkatesh Akkoor who completed this work in 2011 as part of her PhD degree in University of Iowa. Chitra made multiple trips to Germany and spent significant amount of time with Afghan Hindus in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cologne to complete this work.
A Lost Opportunity? Hindus and Sikhs do not get a reserved seat in parliament
Source: Afghanintan Analysts Network Author: Fabrizio Foschini Date: 16 December 2013 On 14 December 2013, the Wolesi Jirga (WJ), the lower house of the Afghan parliament, rejected the presidential decree adding a reserved seat among its ranks for the Hindu and Sikh minorities. The debate showed a divided house, but the vote rewarded those pitted against… Continue reading A Lost Opportunity? Hindus and Sikhs do not get a reserved seat in parliament